Why is finding duplicate files helpful You may not realize how many duplicate files you have after downloaded many files from the Internet or duplicate files scattered over your home or corporate network. Duplicate files are usually waste and unnecessary keeping them is merely a waste of valuable hard disk space. Your hard drives may be full of documents, iTunes, iPod, MP3, Photos, and Videos and many of them are redundant.
Deleting duplicates will help to speed up indexing and reduces back up time and size. Your computer isn’t fully optimized until you’ve removed all unnecessary clone files.
KEY FEATURES 1. Powerful search engines (byte by byte and SHA-1) 2. Find files with same contents, same name, and zero sizes. 3. Find duplicate pictures, videos, songs (mp3, wma, ogg). 4. Fastest among duplicate file finders and duplicate file cleaners. 5. Works with removable media devices like pen drives, external hard disks, etc. 6. Search local PC and over the network. 7. Identify and recover wasted disk space 8. Reducing the time and media used for backups 9. Minimize time used to unneeded virus scanning 10. Increase free space on "limited" resources, like laptops and memory disks
WinDirStat - WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat.
CCleaner - CCleaner cleans, speeds up and frees up space on business endpoints.
WizTree - WizTree quickly finds the files and folders using the most space on your hard drive. It scans the MFT (Master File Table) instead of crawling the entire disk which makes it very fast.
SongGenie - SongGenie analyzes, identifies and repairs your mp3 tags and names.
SpaceSniffer - SpaceSniffer is a freeWare (donations are welcome) and portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks.
iTunes Duplicate Song Manager - iTunes Duplicate Song Manager with Folder Watch removes iTunes duplicates in Windows and Mac OS X.